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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2025-11172 EUVD-2025-35808GHSA-wcq9-qf8h-vcj9

Check Plagiarism <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update

Published Oct 24, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the API key.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
plagiarismchecker Check Plagiarism ≤ 2.0 —

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